Books in the W&N Military series

A vivid page-turning narrative of the most horrific battle in history by a soldier turned bestselling novelist

A concise account of the most famous battle of the First World War, by a leading military academic and expert on the conflict.

The definitive history of the British soldiers executed by their own Army during the First World War

The bestselling story of an elite desert fighting force in the Second World War.

The first of two volumes in John Erickson's monumental history of the Soviet-German war.

The extraordinary drama of Malta's WWII victory against impossible odds told through the eyes of the people who were there.

The classic account of the war on the Eastern Front between the Russians and the Germans - the greatest clash of arms the world has ever seen - written by the eminent military historian, diarist and politician Alan Clark.

This is the defining book on the theory and practise of tank warfare, by the man who became one of Hitler's most able generals.

The reality of what it is to be a soldier, by Britain's foremost military historian.

Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower

The bestselling novel which inspired the Hollywood movie starring John Mills.

A classic real-life adventure story from the Second World War involving Patrick Leigh Fermor, kidnap and a Nazi manhunt.

This is the book that answers the question: Could Germany have won World War Two?

The second part of the bestselling novelist's autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the second world war

The harrowing, and inspiring, story of the capture of one of Britain's top SOE agents in World War Two, his refusal to crack under the most horrific torture, and his final imprisonment in a concentration camp.

The famous story of mass escape from a WWII German PoW camp that inspired the classic film.

The first of John Master's evocative memoirs about life in the Gurkhas in India on the cusp of WWII

An absolutely unique book, this is the Second World War in Burma as seen through the eyes of ordinary Japanese soldiers

The true story of how Britain won the First World War.

The bestselling story of Britain's most courageous and most famous flyer, the Second World War hero Sir Douglas Bader.

A classic autobiography by the best known Second World War Fleet Air Arm pilot. A story of real life adventure, action and heroism.

The story of the bravest battle ever fought.

Filled with almost unbearable tension and excitement, DAS BOOT is one of the best stories ever written about war, a supreme novel of the Second World War and an acclaimed film and TV drama.

The greatest conflict of antiquity, the struggle for supremacy between Rome and Carthage.

'One of the great Second World War memoirs ... will be read as long as that war is remembered' John KeeganA true military classic.

The devastating true story of a young Franco-German soldier trapped in the lethal machinery of total war on the Eastern Front in the Second World War.

The controversial account of what really happened in the south Atlantic skies

The daring British air raid that inspired the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Wonderfully nostalgic and and powerfully moving true stories from the young men and women who kept Britain's aircraft flying and fighting during the Second World War